🎙️ Do the Right Thing Every Day: Jay Prock's Safety Revolution in Shipbuilding Staffing

In this inspiring episode, Jay Prock, President and Owner of Tidewater Staffing, shares his extraordinary journey from temp worker to company leader, transforming a family business founded in 1992 into the safety standard for the shipbuilding industry. Through powerful stories of workplace accidents that changed everything, a near-fatal skydiving incident, and the painful betrayal by a trusted employee, Jay reveals how his "do the right thing every day" philosophy revolutionized worker safety while building a thriving debt-free business that breaks traditional staffing industry rules.

✨ Key Insights You'll Learn:

• Safety transformation: How two catastrophic workplace accidents led to a complete overhaul of safety protocols

• The training revolution: Creating mock shipboard environments to screen and prepare workers before job placement

• Breaking industry rules: Operating without hiring fees or commission-based pay structures

• 4X helmet investment: Upgrading to professional-grade safety equipment despite massive cost increases

• Francis R. Sharp Award: Recognition for exceptional safety leadership from workers comp provider

• Family business transition: Learning the trade from the bottom up, including tank cleaning and container loading

• Employee development: Hiring from the talent pool you serve and promoting workers to supervisors

• Crisis leadership: How personal near-death experience shaped workplace safety priorities

🌟 Jay's Key Mentors & Influences:

• Mark Prock (Dad): Company founder who built business on integrity and "never shedding skin"

• James Salmons: Industry safety expert who provided framework for safety transformation after accidents

• Doug (Tank Cleaning Mentor): Taught hands-on industrial processes and humble learning approach

• Shannon (Associate): Painter who taught the mirror technique for quality inspection

• Signal Mutual: Workers comp provider that demanded excellence and became trusted partner

• Steve Owens: Created innovative tank hole screening for orientation process

👉 Don't miss this powerful conversation about authentic leadership, revolutionary safety practices, and how personal tragedy can drive professional transformation in one of America's most dangerous industries.

🔗 Connect with Jay Prock:

• Email: [email protected] (responds personally)

• LinkedIn: Jay Prock, Tidewater Staffing

• YouTube: 360-degree safety training videos available for industry use

• Facebook & Instagram: @TidewaterStaffing

📄 Transcript Available: Do the Right Thing Every Day: Jay Prock's Family Business Revolution

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